Triple

T18444776

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Big Brother and the Holding Company	`E450625`	entity
Predicate	album	`P1995`	FINISHED
Object	How Hard It Is	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini

Instruction

Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).

Input

Phrase: How Hard It Is | Statement: [Big Brother and the Holding Company, album, How Hard It Is]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: How Hard It Is
Context triple: [Big Brother and the Holding Company, album, How Hard It Is]

A. The Hard Way
"The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
B. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
C. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a thriller novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, featuring the ex-military drifter investigating a high-stakes kidnapping conspiracy.
D. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a hip-hop album by rapper Goldie Loc, known for its West Coast gangsta rap style and collaborations with fellow Long Beach artists.
E. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1940s novel by American writer Daniel Fuchs, known for its gritty, realistic portrayal of urban life and complex characters.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: How Hard It Is
Target entity description: "How Hard It Is" is a 1971 rock album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, showcasing the band’s post–Janis Joplin era with a blend of psychedelic rock, blues, and hard rock.

A. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a hip-hop album by rapper Goldie Loc, known for its West Coast gangsta rap style and collaborations with fellow Long Beach artists.
B. The Hard Way
"The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
C. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
D. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a thriller novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, featuring the ex-military drifter investigating a high-stakes kidnapping conspiracy.
E. The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1940s novel by American writer Daniel Fuchs, known for its gritty, realistic portrayal of urban life and complex characters.
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step	Stage	Batch ID	Status	When
creating	Elicitation	`batch_69d8d381d6388190a9e94e9c658174e4`	completed	April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e51c142abc8190b4f6f938acdc413d`	completed	April 19, 2026, 6:16 p.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:30 a.m.